Well, Slim Devices had a server and dedicated audio steaming devices devices well before 2005 that had multi-room play and volume control. It was acquired by Logitech and then ruined.

The French Nuke Industry should be benchmarked. No serious plant meltdowns.

If you are rolling your own why not just keep using init? You are not using a full dist I hope for firewall.

Client Server turned out to be not so good with proliferation of servers in a company. Virtual Hosts on same hardware solves this somewhat but the model is ugly with redundant code per user and onerous per user fees by MS. The internet programming will mature to have clean server code that can be balanced easily and simple client device to plug into server. Maybe this is what IBM is doing but I see that spun off in the upcoming bankruptcy. Sounds like batch system is making a comeback.

Just bought Micron 128GB SSD x2 for 2004 Dell PC boot mirror drive. Will install and see if linux works and if so then no Winblows at all of my computing devices. Apple may be next if they don't fix the hardware and software issues since last quarter of 2013. Windows 7 isn't that goos either.

Yes, the would is dynamic and changes all the time. Life is non-linear aF(x) not equal F(ax) and F(x+y) not equal F(x) + F(y) for some x and y.

So humans expect the ice at the poles to stay the same? If ice was gaining, then they would scare us with ice age like in the 70's. The earth is self-regulating and will hopefully get rid of humans some day. The Great Lakes pretty much froze over this past winter. Lake Michigan is still around 42 F.

Great explanation of the current situation on the globe and challenges ahead.

I use DuckDuckGo and Startpage mostly now for search. When I need to map directions I jump directly to google maps.

The homeowner should pay for a conduit pipe from street then comm vendors can bid to use it by fishing conduit wire thru it to home. This would drastically reduce the price of upgrading services and even allow more than one provider at a time. The problem is cronyism on the local level with Cable deals from the 1970's and then Federal rules that favor the incumbents to collude.

Seen it done many times. Why should we base a document creation and sharing infrastructure based on these kinds of users?

If you need to to do advanced formatting for a longer document, LibreOffice is much easier and reliable for that. And printing Avery labels is a breeze until Word to this day.

What is called "sharing" is actually electronic send and read/markup. So LibreOffice has built in PDF Export for that. Why would you want to send your biz partner a document that could easily be edited/changed and misinterpreted (or made fraudulent for quote etc)?

And be sure to sue the birds and bees.

I learned much from Byte Magazine. R.I.P.